ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,288, issued on July 8, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).
"Systems and methods for controlling marine drives" was invented by Lukas G. Neveau (Oshkosh, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a marine drive having a throttle handle moveable to control a thrust and a detent engageable to resist moving the throttle handle. The method includes configuring a position sensor to generate position data corresponding to positions of the throttle handle and receiving the position data from the position sensor. The method further includes analyzing the position data to determine a first position of the throttl...